Apocalypse Cults: Inside the MAGA Mindset
May 19, 2025
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as posted by the channelIs America caught in a cult? Culture journalist and author Jane Borden joins cult expert Dr. Steven Hassan to discuss her new book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America. From the Puritans to Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, and the influence of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, we trace how apocalyptic belief systems fuel political extremism, conspiracy theories, and digital mind control.
🔥 Topics include:
✅ The MAGA movement and cult-like influence
✅ Elon Musk, AI apocalypse, crypto and accelerationism
✅ Michael Flynn, QAnon, and Ascended Masters overlap
✅ Reaganomics, Amway, and plutocratic mind control
✅ Social media algorithms - how they control our minds & influence our thinking
✅ What Waco, Church Universal and Triumphant, and OM Shinrikyo teach us about doomsday prophecy
✅ How to help friends and family escape undue influence
✅ The real dangers of authoritarianism in 2025
💥This timely episode addresses breaking news: Trump’s Supreme Court challenges, Elon Musk’s fertility and Mars rhetoric, and the rising search trends around Christian Dominionism and AI doom narratives.
🧠 Join us to understand how cult psychology, undue influence, propaganda, and manufactured division are reshaping democracy—and what we can do to resist.
📚 Buy Jane’s book, Cults Like UsWhy Doomsday Thinking Drives America
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
#DonaldTrump #ChristianNationalism #ElonMusk #AI #QAnon #MAGA #Cults #StevenHassan #JaneBorden #MindControl #Waco #MichaelFlynn #DoomsdayCult #PeterThiel #Amway #Plutocracy #Propaganda #Deprogramming #CultsLikeUs #FreedomOfMind #InfluenceContinuum #Authoritarianism #2025Election
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